#swedish media

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"Accidentally"

[lemonlovemeanslove]

For anyone who appreciates stop motion and stranger childrens movies, please watch this classic called Skrotnisse och hans vänner! (this upload has eng subs btw) It is perhaps the most swedish childrens movie ever made lol, bc i can't imagine a kids movie like this being made in any other country. It has no children in it, is dialog heavy, dark, uncomfortable and ‘‘ugly‘‘ looking. There is almost no music, is darkly lit and contains some frankly terrifying scenes and concepts in it.

The plot centers around brilliant scientis Bertil Enstöring, a recluse old man who does not feel that he belongs anywhere. So, after the villan (who is also an evil capitalist, very typical for older swedish childrens media) drives him from his little isolated lake house he goes on a journey to finds somewhere where he belongs. Only, he dosent. There is nowhere on earth where he wants to stay. Throughout its runtime, Bertil dosent grow less strange, dosent learn to appreciate and love the company of men or the world around him. He dosent want to go back home or to be with his one and only friend. He just gives up on finding a place on earth completely, and moves to a lonely planet where he can be alone forever. He never sees his friend again. And his friend never finds out if Bertil ever found what he was looking for.

At the end of the movie, Kalle, the son of Bertils friend Skrotnisse, asks his father about Bertil, after seeing him take a rocket up into space, never to return. It captures the gloomy, yet hopeful? spirit of the movie so well.

Kalle - Do you think he found a place? Where he feels at home?

Skrotnisse - Who knows. We will probarbly never see him again.

Kalle - Somehow...everything feels so melancholy...

Skortnisse - Come now. Lets watch TV.

In sweden, there is something called det svenska vemodet (The Swedish melancholy). It's a concept in literary circles, and refers to the overall melancholic feel that Swedish society can have. Some call it a national trait, lol. There is a bit of a difference in opinion as to whether or not this concept is just an old sterotype, but as far as swedish poetry, literature and lyrics go, it's quite prominent. With all that said, I cant help but feel that this movie captures some of that angst. Bertil will spend the rest of his life a hermit, alone. And yet, there is something so powerful about that. He dosent cave to what society deems as healty or normal. He wants to be alone, and so he choses to be alone. His friends never find real closure, and still, they move on in life. They adress the melancholy, then sit in front of the TV and laugh. They continue on as they have before. Its not exacly happy, but its life. I dont expect anyone to watch the movie after reading this post, but I hope that someone out there will know how much I love it. And why I love it. And I wish I could contact the people behind it and thank them. Because over the years Bertil has become very important to me. I just want them to know how much I love this movie.

[eliasericson]

three painted pots i will be selling at fijuk marknad in gothenburg saturday 27 april!

[jeeklaart]

To -may- to To -mah- to 🍅

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[chut-je-dors]

Now I'm curious cause of your tag. What did Swedish media say about the eurovision thing?

Oof yeah, here's a post detailing it ... here another... Basically they've absolutely flipped over the fact that Finnish public didn't give Loreen points at all (which I find absolutely hilarious) and suddenly started wielding such rhetoric as "the former eastern part of our kingdom" referring to Finland, which is???? like??? do I even need to say how Not Okay that is?

It might seem to some that the Finnish people are reacting to Sweden's (unfair) win and them being sore winners (which, points to them, I didn't know was possible!) with too much drama, but it's all tied to our history together. Finland has traditionally seen itself, and has been seen by other countries (Sweden included) as the sort of "little brother" to the more advanced, better-faring, glorious Sweden. While Sweden to my knowledge doesn't much care about what Finland gets up to (perhaps overlooking/ignoring us and our merits), Finland is always comparing itself to Sweden and trying to live up to it. It's a very common rhetoric and sort of, the atmosphere over here. We know more about Sweden than Sweden knows about us; we're constantly conscious that Sweden exists. Sweden gets talked about in international news; Finland, if mentioned, is often tied to - you guessed it - being Sweden's neighboring country.

We used to be part of Sweden for 600 years. During that time, Swedish was implemented as the language of the culture and the "civilised" whereas the finns living in the eAstErn pArT oF tHe kiNgDoM were seen as "wild" and "uncivilised" and just, generally a lesser people to the Swedish speaking population. We haven't been under Sweden's rule for some 200 years and STILL we can't seem to shake their influence on us. Swedish is still a mandatory language to learn at school (and I have many opinions on that, but that'd be another post). Finnish as a language has been disregarded for its whole existence. Our leading national thinkers and poets in the 19th century, who were the first ones to really push for the Finnish identity instead of us seeing ourselves as part of Sweden or Russia, wrote in Swedish. The first novel in Finnish was published in 1870.

So this is monumental to us, to have the whole word watching Finland and not Sweden. Finland has a lot of merits, especially considering how small a people we are (just 5,5mil). To have a song in our language, in Finnish be this popular, is something we couldn't have imagined. We as a people are humble to the extreme, so much that we might easily scorn anyone who is too successful (not a good thing!), and this is the first time in my life that I'm seeing the whole country rally behind someone like this. When we say "Our Jere" we mean it with our whole hearts. We're so so proud of him, everyone is, and for once Finnish people seem to think in unison that someone deserves all the praise and the success.

SO, to have Sweden in this UNIQUE moment of Finland raising its head and being "we're so amazing", with the rest of Europe going "yes you're so amazing!!", spew rhetoric like this, is just, unbelievable to me. Like I can't just believe that in the 21st century there are people in Sweden who hold up 200 year old thought patterns of our country. It's been shocking 'cos though there's always been rivalry, it's felt more... tongue in cheek. We "love to hate" Sweden over here. It's been "I hate Sweden (affectionate)". But now we find this unbelievably condescending and belittling attitude towards us raising its head, and we wonder, we thought we two were okay?? But have they always held these beliefs???

So there's a sense of betrayal in the air as well. And just, full on disbelief. And maybe we're starting to see that it has been like this all along, but we've decided to turn a blind eye to it? True colours shining through? Perhaps not... but yeah.

Sweden not looking good here!

(here's one more post that says the same that i did but was better at making it SHORT oops)

[skruttet]

here's the dvd! this one actually came with two pretty postcards ❤️

[pernillecfcw]

Swedish Royalty 👑🇸🇪

[honeygleam]

fucking åmål (1998) dir. lukas moodysson

[jacobhubertusart]

June 16, 2024. By Jacob Hubertus.

Untitled. Mixed media.

[duchessofostergotlands]

I am completely obsessed with Leonore in Princess Madeleine’s Easter picture. My vibe whenever someone says “let’s take a group photo”

[museofvoid]

While Käärijä admitted to being a sore loser and that he needed some time to process the results

The Swedish media is being a worse winner and can't accept that the public didn't want us to win :)

[redlettermediathings]

[toxicmetalzine]

Demiser

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[celluloidrainbow]

VINGARNE (1916) dir. Mauritz Stiller A conniving countess comes between a gay sculptor, Claude Zoret, and his bisexual model and lover, Mikaël. The film is largely lost, with only half an hour surviving of the original 70-minute film. A restoration was made using still photos and title cards to bridge the missing sections in 1987. Based on Herman Bang's 1902 novel Mikaël, the same source for the 1924 film of the same name. (link in title)

[adaptations-polls]

Which version of this do you prefer?

[royal-hair]

New picture of Princess Adrienne on the occasion of her 6th birthday.